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Lords vote for Tax Credit cut delay and compensation for losers
26 October 2015 | News
... Jane Campbell emphasised the importance of tax credits for disabled people. "My Lords, as a Cross-Bencher in this ... an unprecedented and effective pathway into employment for disabled people who faced the greatest barriers to ... unemployment among disabled people. Furthermore, we cannot look at working tax credits in isolation. We are promised ...
Open Letter To Liz Kendall: Don’t Continue With WCA Cuts
28 October 2024 | News
A joint open letter sent from UK Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations, including DR UK, and others ... The joint letter and its signatories are below: FROM: Disabled People Against Cuts, UK DDPO CRDP Monitoring ... are people at substantial risk of harm if coerced into looking for work. They include victims of child and sexual ...
Government Scraps Higher-Level Apprenticeship Funding
27 May 2025 | News
... of training for NHS workers, such as for district nurses looking for a more specialist qualification. In the ... higher-level apprenticeship closes off another route for Disabled people to gain a higher education qualification. ... According to the Office for National Statistics, 25% of Disabled people aged 21 to 64 years had a degree or ...
Commons publishes briefing on the future of Attendance Allowance
09 October 2016 | News
... were required to replace AA in this way, many older disabled people would lose access to support they would have ... groups. The situation is not clear in Wales but they are looking into options for devolving responsibility for ...
Claimant views on ways to improve PIP and ESA questionnaires: new DWP research
25 July 2021 | News
... felt that they struggled to know what information DWP was looking for, as they felt the basis of how PIP and ESA was ...
DR UK strongly condemns DWP refusal to publish its review relating to 69 claimant suicides
05 July 2020 | News
... - let alone the recommendations - of a panel set up to look into its most serious failures. Without transparency, ... its policies and practices, has been the cause of deaths of disabled claimants . It cannot be its own judge and jury and ... documentation be published relating to benefit deaths, but disabled people should be consulted on the make-up and remit ...
Upper Tribunal rules DWP wrong to deny appeals over refused benefits
02 October 2017 | News
... Tribunal decision as it will give a significant number of disabled claimants greater access to justice. In turn, many ... of the decision. When you do this, a decision maker will look at your reconsideration request and, if they agree with ...
SEND Tribunal Appeals at a record high
19 December 2023 | News
... and it doesn’t take “sides”; it applies the law. It looks at official decisions and amends them if law and ... bankruptcy during the cost of living crisis, parents of Disabled children are often blamed for squeezing the Local ... shortfall, according to the National Education Union . Disabled children make up 15% of the school population and ...
MPs demand independent sanctions review
23 March 2015 | News
... the committee has called for and that the review also looks at incentives for job seekers too.” The report ...
New DRILL research programme
11 February 2015 | News
... for its big lottery programme – research for impact: disabled people Disability Rights UK alongside partners ... series of research projects intended to specifically engage disabled people and examine areas contributing to ... research projects specifically engaging disabled people looking at areas contributing to independent living and ...